Coronavirus: Two Los Angeles city workers have died as fatalities from the virus mount.
Mayor Eric Garcetti said Friday, part of the growing number of fatalities in the county.
“Unfortunately among the fallen are city employees,” Garcetti said Friday. “It wasn’t just lip service that these are going to be tough days. … I love sharing the news of the progress we’re making, but it saddens me deeply that we have lost from our own city family.”Garcetti said 15 Los Angeles Fire Department employees and 52 Los Angeles Police Department employees have tested positive for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, and three remain hospitalized.
The county’s death toll increased by 18, to 241, a 6% increase from the previous day. Of those new victims, 10 were older than 65 years old, seven were between 41 and 65, and one was between 18 and 40, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said. Garcetti said Friday marked the fifth day in a row with a single-digit percentage increase in coronavirus cases from the previous day.
Garcetti also announced that the county’s 22nd testing location opened Friday and that there are plans to open a second walk-in testing site in South L.A. By the end of Friday, more than 37,000 L.A. County residents were projected to have been tested for the virus this week, twice the number of those tested last week.
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